Here are the winning Powerball numbers for Wednesday, November 28th 2012:

5, 16, 22, 23, 29

Powerball: 6

Did you win? No? Maybe next time!

Wednesday night, the Powerball jackpot stood at $550 million$580 million — the largest in the multi-state lottery’s history.

There haven’t been any jackpot winners since October 6th, and a nationwide surge in ticket purchases caused the jackpot to reach more than half a billion dollars for this week’s drawing.

If anyone wins, the cash payout will be worth a little over $360 million before taxes. If there is more than one winning ticket, the cash will be divided evenly among the winners.

The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 175 million. It’s customary to remind lottery players that you have a better chance of becoming a celebrity or the next President of the United States, or getting killed in a shark attack or struck by lightening, than winning the lottery, which was worth over $600 million.

In fact, earlier this year, a man from Kansas was struck by lightening a few hours after buying lottery tickets for the Mega Millions lottery.

Before the strike, he reportedly told his friend, “I’ve got a better chance of getting struck by lightning” than winning the lottery. And lo and behold, at about 9:30 pm that night while he was standing in the back yard of his home, he was struck by lightening.